Writing Quotes · Page 613

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

— Mason Cooley

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

“For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.”

— Diane Setterfield

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

— Sydney J. Harris

“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

— Karin Slaughter

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

— Alistair Maclean

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,…

— Dani Shapiro

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the…

— Antony Beevor

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always…

— Markus Zusak

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Every writing session after this realization, I dedicated five minutes (sometimes more, never less) and wrote out a quick description of what…

— Rachel Aaron

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to…

— Sandra Cisneros

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come…

— John Banville

I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on…

— Billy Joel

I'm grateful to have been acting for as long as I have because I have so many experiences and memories, and I've…

— Dakota Fanning

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man…

— William Carlos Williams

If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers…

— Ben Rhodes

There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And…

— Jakob Dylan

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a…

— Steve Berry

“ Language as a Prison The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of…

— David Byrne

Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or…

— Patrick Rothfuss

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true…

— Constance Wu

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

— Pope Francis

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

— Andre Gide

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

— Gabourey Sidibe

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

— Padgett Powell

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

— Kat Edmonson

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

— Barry Mann

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

— Britney Spears

“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

— Robert Frost

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

— Gene Fowler

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

— Jacques Derrida

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

— Howard Nemerov

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

— Kenya Barris

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin